... Woke up from the operation, there was quite a bit of pain which is expected after part of your body has been cut out. Nurse gave me lots of morphine which made me absolutely painless for a few hours, and very sleepy. ... (6 replies)

... his tonsils removed on March 20th so tomorrow will be one week. This evening he comes to me scared with one scab gone and it's bloody looking. He also says he is spittingup a little blood. I think he is scared and thinks something is wrong. Is there something wrong? ... (2 replies)

... re I noticed that I was bleeding a little from the left side of where my tonsil used to be and went to the ER and they suctioned off the blod clot and patched it up and I thought the worst of the worst was over....until day 8... ... (6 replies)

... I am new to these message boards but I'm glad I found them. I thought I would share my story leading up to my tonsillectomy and following up on it as I just got my tonsils out yesterday. ... (13 replies)

... all went downhill from there. I was feeling BAD...I just sat down and cried because I felt so miserable. I was nauseated beyond belief and terrified of throwing up because I knew I would rupture something. The thrush was horrible! ... (94 replies)

... ust clear my throat because otherwise I would tear open the scabs and that everything was ok. She took my IV out and I don't really remember getting wheeled back up to my room. I don't even remember switching back from the operating table to my bed. ... (94 replies)

... please read on about my experience. This is not intended to frighten anyone, but rather bring awareness if you are an adult considering this surgery. I had my tonsillectomy in 2002 at the age of 28. ... (36 replies)

... However due to my little vitamen and high protein binge I handled it very well because you are most highly not going to be able to eat anything after surgery.. I was having trouble just swallowing the water from the melting ice chips. ... (7 replies)

... I also have a spot back there by one of the burned spots that looks like its bleeding, but Im not tasting any blood and Im not spittingup any blood it just looks really sore and bright red in that spot and Im wondering if anyone thinks its cause for alarm. ... (165 replies)

... Day 1, Surgery. Everyone was so nice, it sure helped. When I woke up I was spittingup a lot of thick saliva with some blood. After a few minutes I got some liquids down and a popsicle, and things were on the mend. I kept feeling better and eventually went home about 3 hours after surgery. ... (718 replies)

... barely looked at my throat and there's this little dot of blood. it extremely small nothing that I was too worried about because I've had it before and that time after 10 minutes the bleeding subsided. this time is different. ... (1 replies)

... I had this strange feeling in my throat, and so I went and spit into the sink and saw blood. I continued to spit upblood for a little bit, and then hoarked to get the rest out, and suddenly I felt this relief of pressure and my throat filled up with gunk. ... (25 replies)